The Sickly Youngest Member of the Villainous Family

– In principle, Duke Recardo is right. He has every right to be angry that the second son he sent to Taylors, in the hostage exchange deal, got into an accident and came back.

 

– He should also be held accountable for failing to educate his children. A lot of Taylor’s manpower was wasted looking for the missing hostage.

 

Vanessa watched the monthly meeting through her water orb.

 

Recardo’s momentum was strong enough to shake the sphere of water, but Chenoa didn’t back down.

 

They hadn’t changed a bit in the past few years, whether it was then or now.

 

Elysion tried to mediate, but it wasn’t enough. Smiling to herself, Vanessa disrupted the water ball.

 

The disheveled sphere of water turned to vapor and vanished.

 

She rounded a corner and came to a field of Erasinis in full bloom. It was a scenery that didn’t suit Winchester.

 

And in that scenery, she saw Sasha Winchester, who came out to see the flowers alone, defenseless.

 

“…….”

 

The child’s silver hair looked exactly like Recardo’s.

 

Even her blank gaze seemed, interestingly enough, like his.

 

So, when Vanessa caught the child looking at her, she couldn’t help but be surprised.

 

She sat down, but not before saying, “May I tell you a secret, my lady?”

 

The child asked Vanessa. She answered with a grin.

 

A seven-year-old’s biggest secret was probably that she hid a pie under her bed.

 

“Yeah, I’m curious.”

 

“Othello woke up.”

 

Vanessa’s eyebrows twitched at that.

 

Sasha was staring at her with a knowing look in her eyes. –

 

“Really? My goodness, that’s a relief. When did he regain consciousness?”

 

“Three nights ago.”

 

Sasha spread her fingers to show.

 

Vanessa felt her hair stand on end.

 

However, the scenery in the garden was too peaceful.

 

“……Then Othello must have told you what happened.”

 

Sasha nodded and then stood up from her chair.

 

Vanessa stared at the small and defenseless back of the child.

 

The Bahimos were beings that were bred as weapons in the Halo family.

 

To tame beasts that were not touched by human hands, powerful magic was needed, and Vanessa Halo found the solution in ‘Kaisa.’

 

She kidnapped and brainwashed members of the Taylor family and transplanted their blood to the Bahimos.

 

Although the Kaisa patterns were not visible on their fur, after several attempts, Vanessa succeeded in controlling the Bahimos.

 

“What are you doing here? ”

 

During the process of kidnapping another member of the Taylor family, Othello witnessed it.

 

And Othello learned that the Halo family was behind the previous attack on Sasha.

 

Upon hearing the news, he would have rushed to Taylor’s to tell them the truth if Vanessa hadn’t stopped him.

 

Vanessa controlled the Bahimos to pursue Othello.

 

Over a period of seven days, Othello reached the mountain range of the Winchester territory without stopping, showing remarkable determination.

 

“Why are you doing this?”

 

Sasha asked Vanessa with a sinking expression, genuinely curious.

 

Watching Sasha’s back, Vanessa twisted her lips.

 

“I heard your ability manifested. Do you really not know?”

 

Soon, a blue stream of water began to rise from Vanessa’s hands.

 

In Vanessa’s eyes, an increasingly venomous energy began to emerge.

 

“I received the prophecy of the Water Dragon. Mechius has chosen you.”

 

Vanessa Halo, no one in Halo dared to challenge her authority.

 

As the successor to the patriarch, she became the head of the family after passing a rigorous test, and in the empire, the only ones comparable to her were Recardo and Chenoa.

 

Vanessa did not marry until after the marriageable age had passed.

 

No man caught her eye, and so she considered marrying into another powerful family.

 

“What’s the use of having the Water Dragon? Our territory is barren, and many regions suffer from famine.”

 

“The desert lands to the south are unable to be farmed, even if Winchester hadn’t taken the Roxen estate in exchange for debt.”

 

There were problems within the family.

 

Halo’s land was neither as fertile as Akada’s nor as vast as Winchester’s.

 

When she sold the remaining fertile land to cover the cost of recovering from a downturn, the situation became even more severe.

 

“Water Dragon, please bless the Halo family. ”

 

One day, Vanessa became pregnant from a night with a certain heir.

 

“May the prophecy be fulfilled. ”

 

It was a fortunate event. Although she had not married, the baby in her womb was undoubtedly the heir to Halo.

 

The date of the birth coincided with the date of the appearance of the Key of Mechius, as foretold by the dragon.

 

But on the day the woman of Quenne gave birth to a healthy child, Vanessa’s baby died at birth.

 

On that day when the rain poured down so much that the future was not visible, the Water Dragon spoke to Vanessa.

 

Mechius’s Key had been given to Winchester.

 

“Why……. ”

 

The prophecy had been passed down like a secret legend that someday, for the unity and eternal peace of the country, the Dragon Mechius would give the ‘Key.’

 

Winchester received strength, Akada received wisdom, and Taylor received enlightenment, so naturally, Vanessa believed that Mechius’s Key belonged to Halo.

 

However, even the Key belonged to Winchester.

 

“Why is it that you don’t allow Halo to have any! ”

 

“You are the seed of misfortune.”

 

Vanessa looked at Sasha with a cold gaze.

 

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but in the end, it was a trap.

 

Seeing this child coming to meet her, it was clear.

 

“I was going to get rid of you, to take on the Winchesters and Taylors with the mighty army of the Bahimos, but I didn’t even start before your brother caught me.”

 

Vanessa’s lips curled up.

 

Chenoa didn’t understand what was happening.

 

With the water image she had shown, he was shocked to learn that ‘Kaisa’ had manifested.

 

Vanessa wanted the relationship between Winchester and Taylor to escalate to an extreme.

 

She sowed the seeds of discord, pretended to mediate, and led to even greater discord.

 

“Why… do you hate me?”

 

At Sasha’s words, Vanessa chuckled.

 

“I don’t hate you. I just think it’s unfair and want to overturn everything.”

 

Halo, the family of the Water Dragon, a peace mediator, a guardian.

 

All those titles were meaningless.

 

Even without strife, in the harsh environment, she wished for the Winchester and Taylor relationship to deteriorate to an extreme.

 

If Sasha Winchester dies, Mechius will undoubtedly give the key to Halo.

 

In that case, water would spring up on the barren land of the Halo territory, creating a paradise where everyone could live in abundance.

 

Vanessa Halo took a dagger from her bosom.

 

And at that moment, Sasha squeezed the Soul Ball she had secretly been holding.

 

“……!”

 

Boom!

 

Vanessa’s wrist, holding the dagger, was fiercely bitten by a large dog. Blood flowed from the bitten wrist, and the dropped dagger fell to the ground.

 

Kather, the three-headed guard dog of Winchester, had been summoned.

 

“Ugh!”

 

Sasha stumbled back a few steps, and Vanessa used the power of water to pull herself away from Kather.

 

Crack-!

 

Vanessa looked at Sasha, her hand wrapped around her bleeding wrist.

 

“You’re as good as dead, Sasha.”

 

But Sasha was not afraid. Kather was only there to buy her a little time after she extracted the truth.

 

As the water around Vanessa Halo’s hand formed into a spear and pointed at Sasha, a powerful black flame rushed towards her from a distance.

 

Kwaaaang!

 

A tremendous explosion occurred, and dust filled the air.

 

Sasha covered her eyes with her dress sleeves, and the surroundings were enveloped in acrid dust.

 

Vanessa, just before the explosion, barely managed to protect herself with a water shield, but the ground around her was torn, and blood flowed from her lips.

 

“By key, you mean Sasha.”

 

In the midst of the dust, Vanessa twisted her lips when she saw a black figure walking towards her.

 

Recardo Winchester. He shouldn’t have been in Rosento in the first place.

 

He had disguised himself as if attending the monthly meeting, and he had been here all along.

 

“An enemy’s enemy is worth considering as an ally.”

 

Chenoa Taylor, with a clean face, also appeared, wearing a complicated expression.

 

Behind him, Elysion Akada, with a complex expression, was also looking at Vanessa.

 

Sasha took a step back and stood behind Recardo’s legs. Vanessa smiled, realizing that she was caught.

 

“Sasha, I have to admit it.”

 

If there were that many Bahimos, the child named Othello would have been torn apart by now and the body would not have been found.

 

However, the ‘key’ is different, apparently, as the key, Sasha Winchester, has survived along with him.

 

“But now that I’ve been found out.”

 

From the tip of Vanessa Halo’s fingers, a burst of water energy spewed out.

 

It seems like she intends to bring this to an end today.

 

“Let’s play for a while, my friends.”

 

The blossoming flower garden of Erasinis.

 

Most of these flowers will not survive today.

 

As Recardo began to lift black flames from the ground.

 

“This place is my home.”

 

In his cold, low eyes, he saw Vanessa.

 

“The only punishment for threatening my daughter is pain and death.”

 

Recardo’s lips curled into a cold smile.